W. Paul Reeve

“...[Y]ou are free to hate anyone you choose. That is until you take upon yourself the name of Christ. At which point the right to hate is no longer available to you. - Catherine Stokes”
― W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood

“[T]he debate between Orson Pratt and Brigham Young continued long after the legislative session ended. The two men gave life to the two competing explanations for the racial priesthood restrictions in the Church... Both explanations were grounded in an underlying assumption that Black people were inferior to white people and that white skin was normal and black skin was somehow cursed---a deterioration away from whiteness. Rather than trusting Jesus Christ when He told Joseph Smith, 'All flesh is mine, and I am no respecter of persons,' these various explanations favored white flesh over other shades of flesh and implied that Jesus Christ was in fact a respecter of persons.”
― W. Paul Reeve, Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood